SMT - Square Mesh Track

I can't answer your specific questions but I believe there have been some recorded sites in the UK where SMT has been used for farm fencing. There are also some locations that used the PSP track as well. I do know that PSP was used to make concrete sections for garages for cars as they were visible in some areas where the concrete was thin (1950s garage). I suspect SMT was also use for the same purpose. 

I did find some locations where SMT was used for fencing using Google Streetview around the site of UK advanced landing grounds.

Looking at your attached photo it reminded me that at some locations in London old wartime emergency stretchers are still being used as fences. They also used a square mesh but not the same as SMT which was much larger.

I do have one question, and that is, what is the life expectancy of SMT when used as fences? I suspect a lot of it must be rusting through by now.

 

There is a 1945 newspaper article that mentions BRC, this is the bit about SMT but send me your EMAIL address and I will send you the whole article.Staffordshire Advertiser - Saturday 29 December 1945Image © Successor rightsholder unknown. Please contact us via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you wish to claim rights to this title..
B.R.C. SWITCH-OVER
The switch-over from war to peace-time production was rapidly carried into effect at the works of The British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Co.. Ltd, on the termination of hostilities. When the war in Europe ended the firm anticipated a slow up in the demand for square mesh track, which they had been supplying large quantities. and when approached by the War Office regarding a termination date for their contracts they were able ta close down on this work as soon as required. It was possible, therefore, for the firm to resume peace-time activities almost immediately after the end of the war with Japan. Since that time business has been confined to home and export work, devoted mainly to reconstruction.
The firm expects to be working to full capacity as soon as the present building restrictions are removed and when the construction of schools and the building of roads commence.
Of the firm*s war-time activities, it can be said that they carried out many important contracts for Government departments. Early in the war they designed a reinforced concicte air-raid shelter, and later made most of the mesh for bunks in Anderson shelters, bunks for tube stations and similar places safety, and then Morrison shelters.
 During the course of these contracts the firm had been experimenting with mesh to lay on the ground to form a temporary surface which was called square mesh track. Eventually this invention was perfected and very large quantities were supplied for advance air-fields, etc. The first cargo plane to land in France after D-Day landed on B.R.C. square mesh track, and. later, blown up, a temporary bridge of square mesh track was used.
 

BRC became part of BRC McMahon Reinforcements in 1970 which seems based in Tipperary.

BRC was a Staffordshiire company though originally from Manchester,

 

Not sure how much in them but several documents on CARL about SMT.

 

Some good background on the Airfield Construction Branch here

www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/research/...rnals/Journal-51.pdf

Of the firm*s war-time activities, it can be said that they carried out many important contracts for Government departments. Early in the war they designed a reinforced concicte I aiI Ir-raid shelter, and later made most of the mesh for bunks in Anderson shelters, bunks for tube stations and similar places safety, and then Morrison shelters.

I noticed this bit in the newspaper report, did they make the stretchers that were supplied to the large air raid shelters?  A few years ago there were pictures of these being used end to end as fences in some housing estates.